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Henry Davis is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. His research primarily focuses on critically endangered indigenous languages of British Columbia, particularly those belonging to the Salish, Wakashan, and Tsimshianic language families. Since 1992, he has been engaged in the study of the Northern Interior Salish language St’át’imcets (Lilllooet) and has collaborated with the Upper St’át’imcets Language, Culture and Education Society and Lisa Matthewson. Davis's work encompasses a range of syntactic and semantic topics, including configurationality, anaphora, ellipsis, WH-questions, and modality. He contributes to grammar and language teaching while co-editing a three-volume English-St’át’imcets dictionary and utilizing contemporary historical textual materials. He has worked directly with a number of Salish languages, including Northern Straits, Halkomelem, Shuswap, and Thompson, as well as Wakashan languages like Nuuchahnulth and Kwak’wala, and the Interior Tsimshianic language Gitksan (Gitxsanmix).
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.